Adrienne Wyper

Your vagina can look after itself most of the time. It doesn’t need special washing products, nor Gwyneth-Paltrow-style steaming, herbal detox pellets, tightening sticks or ‘vagacials’. It’s self-cleaning, and self-pH-regulating. However, there is one area that it sometimes needs help with: lubrication, for sex (or inserting a tampon, or a smear test), and for everyday hydration to keep it feeling comfortable.

There’s nothing morbid about spending time in a cemetery. As wildlife havens and architectural delights they offer much-needed green spaces, and their well-managed wildernesses allow rural escape without the journey. | Picture research and building on website

The world’s most famous flower show will take place in September this year – and tickets are now on sale | Photography and building page on website

My grandma felt the waste of ‘all this pretty paper’ and when unwrapping Christmas and birthday presents she would smooth it out and fold it up to reuse, while the rest of the family laughed. But now we’re all reusing, reducing and recycling. The UK will use around 108 million rolls of wrapping paper this Christmas, but there is an elegant, and eco-friendly, alternative…
Wrap Japanese-style
I lived and worked in Japan for a couple of years, where I was baffled on a daily basis, by all kinds o...

We were lucky with the weather, we all agreed, in spring and summer; blue sky and warm sunshine taking the edge off Covid anxiety, and encouraging us to spend time outdoors.

At this time of year – and in the midst of the pandemic – we all need to think about our levels of vitamin D. We know vitamin D as the ‘sunshine vitamin’, and that our bodies manufacture it after exposure to sunlight – the only vitamin that we don’t get solely from food. Vitamin D helps to regulate levels of calcium and phosphate in our bodies, which is needed for healthy bones, teeth and muscles.

Discover a tree as old as the Norman Conquest on a ramble through Petworth Park

‘Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down,’ said Winston Churchill, who attributed his success in life to conserving his energy. That may have worked for the man running the country during WWII, but most of us – let’s be honest – have less demanding daily lives.

Within this ancient woodland of birch, oak and Scots pine are the remains of one of Britain’s largest Iron Age hillforts. But who lived here on Oldbury Hill, and why?

Do you leak when you laugh? Or when you lift something heavy? Does the idea of getting on a trampoline strike terror? Up to one in three women will experience urinary incontinence (UI) at some point.

Walk or cycle along a former railway line

On her journey to an enchanting waterfall, Adrienne Wyper unearths an industrial landscape reclaimed by nature and transformed into an abundant wilderness…

Most of Britain’s butterflies are on the wing over the summer months, so it’s a great time to get to know them better

Jaunty, jolly bathing huts line the shore at many of our favourite seaside resorts, as much part of the great British seaside as piers and Punch & Judy – we look at how a simple seaside storage shed became a covetable coastal property…

What better time to roll up your sleeves and show yourself some self-love? Firstly, it’s good for you. And as of today, new coronavirus guidelines mean that having sex with anyone you don’t already live with is illegal. Honestly, if you want a job doing…